kolej
Czech
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Czech kolejě, from Proto-Slavic *kolěja.
Noun
editkolej f
Declension
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from Latin collēgium.
Noun
editkolej f
Declension
editFurther reading
editPolish
editAlternative forms
edit- kolij, koli (Middle Polish)
- koleja (obsolete)
Etymology
editInherited from Old Polish koleja, with an unexpected loss of -a.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkolej f (related adjective kolejowy)
- (countable) rail, railway (transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods)
- Synonyms: kolej żelazna, droga żelazna
- (countable) rail, railway (enterprise dealing with rail transportation)
- Polskie Koleje Państwowe ― Polish State Railways
- (countable) train (vehicle that moves on rails)
- Synonym: pociąg
- (countable) rail (route designated by tracks)
- (countable) rail, railway (wagons or lifts placed on a rope or tracks that lead to a mountain peak)
- (uncountable) turn (appropriate time for a person to take an action i.e. in a game) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for whom/what’]
- Near-synonym: pora
- Jest twoja kolej. ― It's your turn.
- (chiefly in the plural) order (natural sequence of events)
- Near-synonym: następstwo
- (countable, obsolete) rut (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
- Synonym: koleina
- (countable, obsolete) hairdo (particular way in which one places their hair)
Declension
editDeclension of kolej
Derived terms
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Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kolej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 18 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 112 times, making it the 548th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- kolej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kolej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kolej”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “KOLEJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.12.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 398
Turkish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkolej (definite accusative koleji, plural kolejler)
Declension
editReferences
edit- kolej on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
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